"Few Days" is a song that has been used as a hymn. It was printed in The Social Harp where John G. McCurry, the compiler, claimed authorship in 1855. There is sheet music that gives the title as '"Few Days" or "I'm Going Home" with authorship notes reading "music Arranged and Adapted by Albert Holland', United States, 1854". The cover also states "as Sung with great Applause by the Christy Minstrels". I learned it from the Folk Legacy recording on The Golden Ring: Five Days Singing Volume 2 (1971). The singers include Ed & Penny Trickett, Ruth Meyer, Gordon Bok, Joe Hickerson, Harry Tuft (leads this song), Sara Grey, Barry O'Neill and others. It is also printed in Jackson's Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America (1937) where he classifies it as a "Revival Spiritual Song", that is, a song that found root in the camp-meetings where singing used songs with more repetition that encouraged group singing. The transcribed version is from Jackson. The Golden Ring version is rhythmically different.